The last plea has been entered in a brawl between rival biker gangs that left three people dead and dozens injured at a southern Nevada casino in 2002.

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered Saturday night at the square where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, to remember the man and his legacy 13 years after his killing.

With delirious cheers from more than 100,000 people jammed into the city's Grant Park, Barack Obama's hometown embraced his landmark victory Tuesday night as a dream finally come true.

The city of Springfield plans to bill Barack Obama's presidential campaign about $50,000 to cover expenses related to the August rally he held to introduce Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, officials said Tuesday.

After two years of stories about bad ratings and an uncertain future, Katie Couric is back to making news the old-fashioned way — with her work.
Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has recommended that four officers be fired for misconduct when force was used to clear a park during a 2007 immigration rally.
Lawmakers on Thursday questioned the legality and effectiveness of the government's tactics in a May raid that led to the arrest of nearly 400 immigrants.
Immigration reform advocates and religious leaders hope hundreds of people will descend on a small Iowa town this month for a rally in support of workers arrested in a large raid at a meatpacking plant.

Damion Easley provided some unlikely power with an eighth-inning home run that carried the New York Mets past the Colorado Rockies 2-1 on Friday night, their seventh straight win.
Nineteen Los Angeles police officers face discipline over the use of batons and other force on peaceful demonstrators and journalists at an immigration rights rally last year.

Through a haze of his own cigar smoke, Paul Pierce peered through sleepless eyes at the sea of green-clad fans and thrust his golden MVP trophy skyward.

Thousands of protesters marched through Seoul against a U.S. beef import pact that has renewed fears of mad cow disease. Police said Tuesday that 30 demonstrators were arrested after scuffling erupted.

Horns blaring, dozens of West Virginia truckers fed up with high fuel costs converged on the state Capitol in protest Friday. They drove off three hours later, still frustrated but with assurances of support from the governor.

More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip.

Thousands of pro-hunting demonstrators blowing bugles and accompanied by hunting dogs, thronged a boulevard in central Madrid on Saturday to protest a law restricting the use of lead shot.

The next Dakar Rally will zoom past the Andes, over Argentine plains and through Chilean desert instead of racing through African scrub and dunes.
A member of the Mongols motorcycle club was sentenced Tuesday to 18 to 45 months in prison for his part in a deadly casino brawl with rival Hells Angels during a biker rally in 2002.
A bomb exploded Monday near a mass political rally where thousands of supporters of Nepal's main political parties had gathered to mark the start of campaigning for elections, police said.
The city settled a lawsuit brought by anti-war groups who were barred from staging a big rally in Central Park during the 2004 Republican National Convention.

The Dakar Rally, the epic motorcycle, car and truck race across the Sahara desert, was canceled Friday by organizers citing "direct" threats of terrorism from al-Qaida-linked militants.

John Edwards capped his Iowa transformation from 2004's sunny optimist to 2008's fiery populist Wednesday night, urging a caucus-eve crowd of 3,000 to take back "our democracy" from greedy corporations.

Although Wall Street has logged its biggest two-day rally in five years, no one is ready to declare an end to the credit crisis that has pummeled stocks since the summer.

Marchers surrounded the Justice Department headquarters on Friday to demand federal intervention in the Jena Six case and stepped-up enforcement of hate crimes. On a chilly but clear day, busloads of people packed a downtown plaza to protest charges brought against six black teens accused of beating a white high school student in Jena, La. Tensions between black and white students had run high for weeks in Jena, including an incident where a noose was hung from a tree at school. No one was charged with a crime for hanging the noose.

